Black Butler’s Live-Action Movie Headed To The UK?
Back in January, a Japanese live-action movie based on Yana Toboso’s Black Butler manga was released in Japanese theatres. Although an official release has yet to be announced, if website of the British Board of Film Classification is any indication, Warner Bros. Entertainment UK might be planning a theatrical release of the movie, as it was issued with a 15 certificate earlier this week.
The BBFC website describes the film as follows:
BLACK BUTLER is a live-action adaptation of a Japanese manga series about a demonic butler and his master, set in a futuristic world where a new drug with fatal side-effects threatens to destabilise society.
Unlike the original manga, which was set in Victorian England, this movie adaption has moved the setting to an Asian city in 2020 and the main character of the manga, Ciel Phantomhive, has been replaced with Shiro (Gatchaman‘s Ayame), who has to don a male persona as females aren’t permitted lead the Phantomhive family. The role of the demonic butler Sebastian Michaelis is played by Hiro Mizushima (Beck).
Yen Press are currently publishing the ongoing manga series in English, while Manga Entertainment UK released the first two seasons of the anime in the United Kingdom. The final episode of the franchise’s third television anime series aired in Japan last week.
